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SUFFERING FROM HUNGER, BEN GAVE HIMSEIiF UP TO THE OFFICERStutpen oilWHS IN THE RECENT FIGHTDeclares He is Tlie Man That Killed (iiMrii|H-^Wear8 the Hat of Andy Dick, One o* Deputies Who Was In the Fight.nr*liecaithibailaeresfcBt1‘efPc.Siir.ca’fSpecial to The Phoenix.PRYOR CREEK. I. T., May 15.— A report has just reached here that Deputies Walfford, Dick and Long arrested Ben Hungry, a full blood Cherokee, near the Maves ferry on Grand river ten miles east of this plaoe today.Ben Hungry was reported with the Wyckliffs at the time Deputy Ike Gi 1st rap was killed and It is said that he told partlek on Saline Creek thathe was the jnan who killed GUstrap.• «He was on his way to Pryor Creek with Ben BirUchopper to give himself up whem he was overtaken by the officers and carried back east where It is thought the Wycliffs are in rendezvous. 'Hungry wa» Wearing the hat thatAndy Dick Idst In/the recent' flght with *the Wyoliliffs which lends c,oJlt;)i: to the story that he wrb with thorn when GUstrap killed.Hungry’s reason for giving himself up is best expressed in his own words: He-. said,; “All time hungryand come to. PrvOY*Creek to get soifte ting to eat.”tbiAtS3duofciloft\juS8
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Muskogee Phoenix
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, May 17, 1906
Page 8
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Randy S.
USA 05 Feb 2017
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